Guest Rockfordboi Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 I am currently looking for a SR20det for my escort, wanting to know how much needed changed to do this conversion. I have heard of it being done but I can not find the information on the net. Im looking for any information likes of what over sized brakes were used and stronger diffs etc. have done a few conversions brfore but never a escort. Thx will be waiting for your input Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest escort_boy Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 have u tried looking in http://www.escortpower.net. i would be interested to know how u get on coz i was interested in doin this as well as some stage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esky boi Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Yea id be keen as well aye. I was going to go for a 2.0 pinto coversion at some stage, but might aswell check out a few more options like this. Let us know if u find anything aye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draizuh Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 I dont know if its very similar but my mate has a SR20DET in his Mk3 Cortina. He had it done professionally and it cost him 10k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RT Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 It requires quite a bit of fabrication.. engine mounts, custom sump, custom exhaust and possible custom intake. You'll need to do a full brake upgrade and run no booster or relocate one. Probably need a full wilwood or similar brake remote resivour. You'll need a new diff like a hilux or something with custom disc brakes and brake bias to the rear. Fronts will need upgrading too like wilwood 4pots or AP 4 pots...with bigger discs of course like BMW items. You'll also need an enlarged trans tunnel unless you've got a automatic shell which has a much larger tunnel. This is to fit an appropiate gearbox like the 200sx or Silvia 5 or 6 speed. The manual box's for silvias are rare... You'll also need to custom make the gear lever hole etc and you'll probably need new gauges too as the nissan gearbox's use electrical speedo's etc whereas the old esky uses cable setups. Oh, the clutch will probably be hydrolic so you'll need to work something out there too. If your front cut comes with the factory computer then you can use that, as long as your happy with the stock T25G turbo. Oh and you'll need run twin fuel lines and make a return somewhere in your fuel tank. I don't think the escort tanks have a fuel return pipe? one trick is to put the return into the breather in the filler neck but you'll have to fill up with gas slowly. A capri or similar droptank might be the go... you'll also need a surge tank and twin electric high pressure pumps. as you can see, there's a fair bit to squeeze in there! It will go like a bullet up a batts ass but be prepared..you won't see much change from $10,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidian Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 ..yeah, what he said... you also want a custom driveshaft. maybe even think about a 5stud conversion. also the handbrake will need fiddling with for strenght and location, depending where your gearstick ends up coming out, just putting in a sierra 5speed pushes the stick back about 50mm almost hitting the handbrake, especially in 4th gear. youd also wanna change shock/spring setup. basically gut your car and replace many things underneath.... but in the end youve got a mean menace of a ride Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RT Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 also remember that it's the early SR20's that are the business..early nineties. The later model ones arn't as good. The bean counters at Nissan figured out that the engine was over engineered so they toned it down. The later SR's can't be made into the weapons that the earlier ones could. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidian Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 really? i personally hate overengineered motors, thats why i prefer oldies, besides other things, but didnt know this about the SRs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerm Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 some escorts do have fuel return.. the ones that come with webers i think..... so when i put my engine in i think i am going to just block the fuel retun on the carb.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest escort_boy Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 yea the webber carbs do have them on the eskies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RT Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 yep really. In the early ninties Nissan over engineered many of their engines. This is why you can screw so much more power out of them than factory. Of course it's not in a companies best interests to build engines to do anything more than what it's designed to do so when the accountants realised they toned em all down again. There's nothing wrong with over engineered engines! you're just getting a strong peice of equiptment capable of handling serious power. I was going to put an SR in my capri but something didn't feel right about having a forgein engine plus everybody's sticking SR's in their car's these days so it's good to do something different....plus the cost of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted January 16, 2005 Share Posted January 16, 2005 I looked at doing similar in my mk1. Decided against it because of all the hassel. The amount of power out of one means youll have to do serios rear end work to get traction. Didnt want to fuck round with that. I did a pinto connversion. Cheap as and if you spend the money that youd use on an sr20 conversion youd be getting serious power. I dont know about the gearboxs being hard to find is all that true as you can just use a skyline box which im sure aint hard to find. Even if you did have an auto shell youd still need to cut the gearbox tunnel more tho. i got a whole lot of pics of a fj20 in an escort if u want them post me your email addy. Might come in handy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rockfordboi Posted January 17, 2005 Share Posted January 17, 2005 Rockfordboi@walla.com any pics of conversions into an escort would be good thanx, i got a 1 gig limit so dnt hold back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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davidian Posted January 17, 2005 Share Posted January 17, 2005 hey thats no sr20det! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pushrod Posted January 17, 2005 Share Posted January 17, 2005 Last time I was in aus I saw a mk2 Escort with an SR20 in it the car that was in fast fours or something a while back it was a really nice install and the guy said it went like crazy it was a pretty nice car all round Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted January 17, 2005 Share Posted January 17, 2005 cossy Sent you an email with pics too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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